PETA Files FTC Complaint Against KFC

Written by PETA | April 9, 2009

In our fight to get KFC to enact minimal welfare standards for the more than 350 million chickens slaughtered for its U.S. restaurants each year, our supporters have helped us choose billboards and dressed up like the Colonel for Halloween. Now we’d like to ask your help with an even bigger task.

We’re filing a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking it to take action against KFC for the chain’s deliberately deceptive and unfair statements to consumers about the treatment of chickens raised and killed for its buckets and boxes. KFC allows its suppliers to house chickens in crowded sheds—with waste on the floor so thick that the ammonia burns the chickens’ skin, feet, eyes, and throats. It allows its suppliers to use a slaughter method in which birds’ throats are cut while they are still conscious. A company like that should not be allowed to claim a “commitment to animal welfare.”

Please, take the time now to file your own, polite complaint with the FTC about KFC’s false claims of humanity and send this video to 10 friends so they can see just how “humane” KFC chicken really is.

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How can those workers act that way toward the chickens, I believe there is a much bigger picture than attacking a company. Those workers should have there heads examined.. And My favorite comment is Im never eating at KFC again and then they say its too expensive…if KFC raised their prices to $5 per leg and they were the enacted a 100& humane way of killing listening to all of PETAs requests would you complain against the prices and go buy a cheaper one?? If you are going to take a stand for the treatment of animals, the cost should never be the issue!

I will never eat there again after watching that horriable way they kill those poor chickens and there prices are too high $1.95 for a chicken leg they make 40 dollars from 20 chicken legs from people is a rip off which at the store costs around 6 bucks. Goodybye KFC. I hope you go out of business you just lost another customer.

I could not watch this after a certain time. What does it say about someone who is openly cruel to an animal torture slaughter cut andor beat the chicken or any surviving being. I don’t know if I am for ‘eye for an eye’ or simply educate and start again. These sorts of people are made surely not born. Should we tie these people up and swing them against a brick wall? Will that teach them? I do not think so. Some of them have an innate belief to conquer another bieng by torture and distress what goes around will come around they just will not see it come.

PETA SHOULD REALLY WRITE A SONG ABOUT THIS. LIKE FOR EXAMPLE ‘FK U!’… ‘FK U WE HATE WHAT U DO. THE THINGS U DO YOU SHOULD REALLY SUED.’ IT WOULD BE GREAT. GET LIKE A SINGER VEGETARIAN THIS PISSES ME OFF OF WHAT THESE AES DO. I’D BE GLAD TO WRITE A SONG. I LOVE U PETA! YOU GUYS ROCK. FK KFC!!!!

I have been doing KFC demos for the last 34 years in San Francisco and Marin County. Now KFC has just given our city Petaluma CA a whopping $3000.00 to help fix the potholes in Petaluma. These slimebags are going to put their advertisement over every pothole that is fixed so they get free advertising. Thankfully it is chalk and temporary. We had alreay planned to start doing demos at this location now we’re really excited about doing them! So if it really bothers you the horrific way these animals are treated get out and organize a demo in your town! They’re very effective and brings great awareness to this issue. PETA supplied all the signs literature etc.

I pray for animals everyday and ask God that they don’t feel any pain. If KFC is involved in what I just witnessed rest assured I and everyone I now will not be giving them on more penny!!! It is a reality that our world faces and the poor animal suffers. People and businesses like this one will pay the ultimate price later when they face God until then may God have mercy on all animals. Peace and love KW in Ohio

I just dont get it. Why are people so evil and can do that to a living thing. I just cant understand how this stuff gose on and one no stops it. Why? Sometimes i just wish everyone could can and understand that animals are just like us and they feel pain and have a brain and feel feeling it’s just sad

I am firmly against eating anything with eyes! This video is one of the most disgusting I’ve ever seen. Even if you eat meat why such cruelty?! The video shows why I like my animals more than I like most people!

Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights? Read more.